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Why We Need to Lead Through Love

I think that any writing that uses the phrases "...head-spinningly great, jaw-clenchingly urgent, or brain-meltingly obvious" is just mind-blowingly amazing! And there is much more to this post.  It focuses on how our passion for our purpose, when combined with an old model of leadership which involves fear and bullying to force our point of view, is in the end no different than the "leadership" of demagogues and bullies themselves.  We have to rewire our brain to first accept people, in their entire life journeys, and then lead them to see their own truth through love.  And according to the blogger, our very existence depends on making this change!  https://medium.com/bad-words/the-biggest-little-challenge-in-leadership-c247e2d45497#.gq95jg9ff

Product Marketers have a Valueable Lesson to Help Hide Changes

Often when a habit fails, it's because the change is too dramatic for our routine-obsessed "animal brain".  There is something we can learn from major food manufacturers to help. If the price of a product increase, we will usually notice this.  It is a conscious component that we are confronted with every time... last week this was $6.49, and this week it's $6.99. So to absorb the increased cost of raw materials and transportation, manufacturers are quietly changing another number; the package size.  What was once 650 ml is now 600 ml.  This is a great way to change habits... a tiny bit at a time, and do so by starting "around the edges".  Marketers know better than to hit the consumer "cold turkey" with a shocking price increase, as their customers will react, and perhaps not in a favourable manner.  So have the price increase accompany a promotion, or for a larger size (which you then gradually reduce in size.) I remember this phenomenon ...

How To Lose Weight Without Dieting

Once we become aware of our triggers and conscious of our food decisions, we are able to then make small changes which have a big effect. In this article, the authors offer up 4 practical tips to help different types of overeaters.  I personally like the "Chew sugarfree gum while shopping, and buy 7% less junk food." https://qz.com/269930/a-cornell-scientist-came-up-with-four-ways-to-lose-weight-without-dieting/